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Iraqi shows mocking the establishment have been gaining millions of views in the past few years. BBC Monitoring looks at who these satirists are, and the risks and obstacles they face in the conservative country. […]

May 22, 2019Comments Off on The secret recording that sparked a crisis

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) has pulled out of the ruling coalition amid a political crisis triggered by a secret recording featuring two leading party figures. In the video, from 2017, FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache […]

May 22, 2019Comments Off on ‘I got death threats. My children got death threats’

In 2009 Ugandan MPs tried to introduce new laws against homosexuality that would include life imprisonment and even the death penalty. Homophobia was rife in the media with tabloid papers printing the names and addresses […]